Richard Edson

There's a reason most people remember The Super Mario Bros. Super Show or The Wizard when they think of '90s Hollywood adaptations of Nintendo properties: because if they didn't they'd be left only with Super Mario Bros: The Movie, the 1993 monstrosity starring Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper, a film only vaguely resembling the cartoonish world of the game series.For some ghoulishly masochistic reason, some Super Mario super fans have created the SMBMovie.com, archiving ephemera from the film as well as circling back to interview actors who starred in the film, such as Richard Edson who played "Spike" to Fisher Stevens' "Iggy", two characters you may know from never having been in Super Mario games at all. Read More